Six times, between films and animated productions, the RPG has been adapted Dungeons and Dragonsbeing this one that opens this Thursday in theaters only on the sixth, starring Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez.
stranger things well lent a hand to Dungeons and Dragons mostly at the start of its fourth season, which aired last year. Many young people knew about role-playing, or remembered it, thanks to the Netflix series.
Now, turning the famous 1974 board game into a movie is no easy task. You have to get your hands on characters with meat, recreate a story for them and try to keep, so that fans don’t explode on social networks, a large part of the real basis of the game.
In the story directed by directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (game night, 2018) combines a little bit of everything. Of course there’s a lot of action, but there are also moments of humor, never, ever reaching the point of parody. Watch the sequence where the quartet of misfits have to ask several corpses, waking them up from their graves, where a mythical helmet has been left that they need to open a certain vault, to achieve their goal.
Because if the goal of any game is to win and -have fun-, this is it Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves It conforms to the latter, appealing to a history of camaraderie and the search for a girl to be reunited with her father.
We were talking about a quartet of characters, two of which with a more protagonist character. They are Edgin (Chris Pine) and Holga (Michelle Rodriguez, remembered not only for the saga of Fast & Furious). They are not a couple, but friends, and she helped raise Kira (Chloe Coleman, of spy game) when his mother, and Edgin’s beloved wife, is no longer among the living.
The problem is that, and we won’t reveal why here, Edgin and Holga end up prisoners in a huge castle prison.
It’s been a year and they have a chance to have their sentences pardoned (they stole, bah, hence the movie’s subtitle). Once outside, both of them just want to be with Kira again.
Hugh Grant, the bad guy
But, and in every film there must always be a but for the plot to (re)activate, the one who wants nothing to do with it is Forge Fitzwilliam (Hugh Grant), companion of adventures and assaults, but now transformed into Lord. And that he lied to her, he filled Kira’s head about her father. This new villain of the fourth class of Grant has an ally, or something similar: Sofina (Daisy Head, Geny in the series shadow and bone), the Red Queen.
What Edgin really wanted was to get a magical element that would allow him to bring his wife back to life. Achieving it will -again- be one of the goals of the game (sorry, the movie), which has enough action scenes so that the two and a quarter hours that the screening lasts doesn’t become more eternal than it seems.
There are good effects where they are needed. In building the monsters they face. There are sword fights, a lot of magic. The characters that complete the quartet are the young and always nervous sorcerer Simon (Justice Smith, from the last trilogy of jurassic world), unable to control his wild magic, and Doric (Sophia Lillis, Beverly in the first Item), which can change shape and animal, be it a mouse or some kind of bear.
There is also Xenk (Regé-Jean Page, from the first season of Bridgerton), who helps in a battle with undead assassin mages.
It is up to the public to decide whether or not this will become a franchise. That there is material to follow, know that yes there is.
“Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”
Action. United States/Canada, 2023. Original title: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. 134′, SA 13. From: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein. With: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Hugh Grant, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis. Rooms: Cinépolis Recoleta and Pilar, Cinemark Palermo, Hoyts Unicenter, Showcase Belgrano.
Source: Clarin
